Advanced Office Password Recovery: it’s all about the speed
Advanced Office Password Recovery (AOPR) received an important performance update, doubling or even quadrupling the recovery speed on certain versions of Microsoft Office when running CPU-only attacks. This performance update thoroughly optimizes the engine, resulting in the 2x improvement on password recovery speeds for Microsoft Office 2003 documents and the 4x improvement for Office 2016 documents when running CPU-only attacks.
In addition, we’ve improved the speed of GPU-assisted attacks 30 to 100% on some NVIDIA GPUs.
👉 https://www.elcomsoft.com/news/733.html
#MSOffice #CPU #GPU #password #passwordrecovery #attacks #NVIDIA
Advanced Office Password Recovery (AOPR) received an important performance update, doubling or even quadrupling the recovery speed on certain versions of Microsoft Office when running CPU-only attacks. This performance update thoroughly optimizes the engine, resulting in the 2x improvement on password recovery speeds for Microsoft Office 2003 documents and the 4x improvement for Office 2016 documents when running CPU-only attacks.
In addition, we’ve improved the speed of GPU-assisted attacks 30 to 100% on some NVIDIA GPUs.
👉 https://www.elcomsoft.com/news/733.html
#MSOffice #CPU #GPU #password #passwordrecovery #attacks #NVIDIA
Elcomsoft breaks VeraCrypt containers, expands cloud support with Microsoft Azure deployment
Elcomsoft Distributed Password Recovery 4.20 helps forensic experts gain effective access to even more encrypted and locked evidence. The update adds support for VeraCrypt containers and introduces the ability to deploy on-demand cloud instances in Microsoft Azure. In addition, the update adds support for FileVault 2 encrypted volumes located on APFS-formatted partitions, and offers ultra-fast attacks for Tally Vault passwords.
👉 https://www.elcomsoft.com/news/739.html
Download EDPR 4.20 Release Notes 📝
#VeraCrypt #cryptocontainer #encryption #password #microsoftazure #passwordrecovery #apsf #tallyvault #GPU #itsecurity #systempasswords #passwordmanager #FileVault2 #1password #dashlane #lastpass #keepas
Elcomsoft Distributed Password Recovery 4.20 helps forensic experts gain effective access to even more encrypted and locked evidence. The update adds support for VeraCrypt containers and introduces the ability to deploy on-demand cloud instances in Microsoft Azure. In addition, the update adds support for FileVault 2 encrypted volumes located on APFS-formatted partitions, and offers ultra-fast attacks for Tally Vault passwords.
👉 https://www.elcomsoft.com/news/739.html
Download EDPR 4.20 Release Notes 📝
#VeraCrypt #cryptocontainer #encryption #password #microsoftazure #passwordrecovery #apsf #tallyvault #GPU #itsecurity #systempasswords #passwordmanager #FileVault2 #1password #dashlane #lastpass #keepas
Password Reuse vs. Master Password: Two Sides of Password Managers
Password managers or password reuse? This is the question faced by most consumers. Reusing a password or its minor variations for different accounts has never been a good idea, yet in today’s world of online everything the rate of password reuse reaches astonishing values. Using a password manager helps reduce password reuse, supposedly offering increased security. In this article, we’ll perform forensic analysis of some of the most common password managers.
👉 https://blog.elcomsoft.com/2020/04/password-reuse-vs-master-password-two-sides-of-password-managers/
by Oleg Afonin
#cryptocontainer #encryption #password #passwordrecovery #apsf #GPU #itsecurity #systempasswords #passwordmanager #1password
Password managers or password reuse? This is the question faced by most consumers. Reusing a password or its minor variations for different accounts has never been a good idea, yet in today’s world of online everything the rate of password reuse reaches astonishing values. Using a password manager helps reduce password reuse, supposedly offering increased security. In this article, we’ll perform forensic analysis of some of the most common password managers.
👉 https://blog.elcomsoft.com/2020/04/password-reuse-vs-master-password-two-sides-of-password-managers/
by Oleg Afonin
#cryptocontainer #encryption #password #passwordrecovery #apsf #GPU #itsecurity #systempasswords #passwordmanager #1password
Tally ERP 9 Vault: How to Not Implement Password Protection
Tally ERP 9 is a “new-age business management software for new-age businesses” that is “tailor-made to delight”. With more than two million users, Tally is one of the most popular tools of its kind in India. The product includes the company’s implementation of secure storage named Tally Vault. How secure is Tally Vault, and what does one need to break in? In this article, we’ve provided some insights on how ElcomSoft researchers work when adding support for a new file format.
👉 https://blog.elcomsoft.com/2020/04/tally-erp-9-vault-how-to-not-implement-password-protection/
by Oleg Afonin
#encryption #password #passwordrecovery #apsf #tallyvault #GPU #itsecurity #systempasswords #passwordmanager #TallyERP9
Tally ERP 9 is a “new-age business management software for new-age businesses” that is “tailor-made to delight”. With more than two million users, Tally is one of the most popular tools of its kind in India. The product includes the company’s implementation of secure storage named Tally Vault. How secure is Tally Vault, and what does one need to break in? In this article, we’ve provided some insights on how ElcomSoft researchers work when adding support for a new file format.
👉 https://blog.elcomsoft.com/2020/04/tally-erp-9-vault-how-to-not-implement-password-protection/
by Oleg Afonin
#encryption #password #passwordrecovery #apsf #tallyvault #GPU #itsecurity #systempasswords #passwordmanager #TallyERP9
Using Microsoft Azure to Break Passwords
Modern applications use highly secure and thus deliberately slow algorithms for verifying passwords. For this reason, the password recovery process may take a lot of time and require extreme computational resources. You can build your own powerful cluster to accelerate brute-force attacks, but if you only need to recover a password every once in a while, maintaining your own cluster may not be the best investment. Cloud services can help do a one-off job faster. For a long time, Elcomsoft Distributed Password Recovery had supported Amazon cloud services with automatic deployment on Amazon’s powerful GPU-accelerated servers. The latest update brings support for Microsoft Azure, adding the ability to automatically deploy Password Recovery Agents to virtual machines created in Microsoft Azure.
👉 https://rb.gy/785g4j
by Andrey Malyshev
#encryption #password #microsoftazure #passwordrecovery #apsf #GPU #itsecurity
Modern applications use highly secure and thus deliberately slow algorithms for verifying passwords. For this reason, the password recovery process may take a lot of time and require extreme computational resources. You can build your own powerful cluster to accelerate brute-force attacks, but if you only need to recover a password every once in a while, maintaining your own cluster may not be the best investment. Cloud services can help do a one-off job faster. For a long time, Elcomsoft Distributed Password Recovery had supported Amazon cloud services with automatic deployment on Amazon’s powerful GPU-accelerated servers. The latest update brings support for Microsoft Azure, adding the ability to automatically deploy Password Recovery Agents to virtual machines created in Microsoft Azure.
👉 https://rb.gy/785g4j
by Andrey Malyshev
#encryption #password #microsoftazure #passwordrecovery #apsf #GPU #itsecurity
Accelerating Password Recovery: GPU Acceleration, Distributed and Cloud Attacks
Modern encryption tools employ strong encryption with multiple hash iterations, making passwords extremely difficult to break. The November article “What is password recovery and how it is different from password cracking” explains the differences between instantly accessing protected information and attempting to break the original plain-text password. In that article, I briefly mentioned GPU acceleration and distributed attacks as methods to speed up the recovery. In this article, I’ll discuss the two acceleration techniques in more detail.
Why do we need GPU acceleration?
Literally, we need GPU acceleration to break passwords faster. How much faster, exactly, depends on several things...
👉 https://blog.elcomsoft.com/2020/04/accelerating-password-recovery-gpu-acceleration-distributed-and-cloud-attacks/
By Oleg Afonin
#passwords #passwordrecovery #GPU #passwordmanager #1Password #Dashlane #Keepass #LastPass #Nvidia
Modern encryption tools employ strong encryption with multiple hash iterations, making passwords extremely difficult to break. The November article “What is password recovery and how it is different from password cracking” explains the differences between instantly accessing protected information and attempting to break the original plain-text password. In that article, I briefly mentioned GPU acceleration and distributed attacks as methods to speed up the recovery. In this article, I’ll discuss the two acceleration techniques in more detail.
Why do we need GPU acceleration?
Literally, we need GPU acceleration to break passwords faster. How much faster, exactly, depends on several things...
👉 https://blog.elcomsoft.com/2020/04/accelerating-password-recovery-gpu-acceleration-distributed-and-cloud-attacks/
By Oleg Afonin
#passwords #passwordrecovery #GPU #passwordmanager #1Password #Dashlane #Keepass #LastPass #Nvidia
Ruling Out the Encryption
We all have habits. Morning coffee (no sugar, just some milk), two eggs (sunny side up), reading mail wile you are not completely awaken, and a lot more. We all follow some kind of rules we have set for ourselves. We all have some favorites: names, cities and even numbers; maybe an important date or place. Can we exploit people’s habits to break their passwords effectively instead of using brute force? We can, and here’s the how-to.
👉 https://blog.elcomsoft.com/2020/10/ruling-out-the-encryption/
#encryption #GPU #password
We all have habits. Morning coffee (no sugar, just some milk), two eggs (sunny side up), reading mail wile you are not completely awaken, and a lot more. We all follow some kind of rules we have set for ourselves. We all have some favorites: names, cities and even numbers; maybe an important date or place. Can we exploit people’s habits to break their passwords effectively instead of using brute force? We can, and here’s the how-to.
👉 https://blog.elcomsoft.com/2020/10/ruling-out-the-encryption/
#encryption #GPU #password
The Rise of the Virtual Machines
Criminals are among the most advanced users of modern technology. They learned how to hide information in their smartphones and how to encrypt their laptops. They communicate via secure channels. Their passwords never leak, and they do their best to leave no traces. Forensic investigators encounter new challenges every other day. In this article, we will discuss yet another tool used by the criminals to cover their traces: the encrypted virtual machine.
👉 https://blog.elcomsoft.com/2020/10/the-rise-of-the-virtual-machines/
#GPU #vmware #virtualmachines #dfir #virtualbox #parallels #passwords
Criminals are among the most advanced users of modern technology. They learned how to hide information in their smartphones and how to encrypt their laptops. They communicate via secure channels. Their passwords never leak, and they do their best to leave no traces. Forensic investigators encounter new challenges every other day. In this article, we will discuss yet another tool used by the criminals to cover their traces: the encrypted virtual machine.
👉 https://blog.elcomsoft.com/2020/10/the-rise-of-the-virtual-machines/
#GPU #vmware #virtualmachines #dfir #virtualbox #parallels #passwords
Five Hundred Posts
Believe me or not, but this is exactly the 500th post in our blog! The first one was posted in March 2009 and was about Distributed Password Recovery and GPU acceleration. At that time, we even did not do mobile or cloud forensics. Today it’s not about our achievements. I want to thank you for being with us, and share a few bits and pieces about our blog that you may find handy or at least amusing.
👉 https://blog.elcomsoft.com/2020/10/the-five-hundred-posts/
#GPU #password #passwordrecovery #tips #jailbreak
Believe me or not, but this is exactly the 500th post in our blog! The first one was posted in March 2009 and was about Distributed Password Recovery and GPU acceleration. At that time, we even did not do mobile or cloud forensics. Today it’s not about our achievements. I want to thank you for being with us, and share a few bits and pieces about our blog that you may find handy or at least amusing.
👉 https://blog.elcomsoft.com/2020/10/the-five-hundred-posts/
#GPU #password #passwordrecovery #tips #jailbreak
Elcomsoft vs. Hashcat: Addressing Feedback
After publishing the first article in the series, we received numerous comments challenging our claims. We carefully reviewed every comment, reread and reevaluated our original article. Elcomsoft vs. Hashcat Rev.1.1 is here.
👉 https://blog.elcomsoft.com/2020/11/elcomsoft-vs-hashcat-addressing-feedback/
#passwords #hashcat #cybersecurity #passwordcracking #dfir #gpu
After publishing the first article in the series, we received numerous comments challenging our claims. We carefully reviewed every comment, reread and reevaluated our original article. Elcomsoft vs. Hashcat Rev.1.1 is here.
👉 https://blog.elcomsoft.com/2020/11/elcomsoft-vs-hashcat-addressing-feedback/
#passwords #hashcat #cybersecurity #passwordcracking #dfir #gpu
Elcomsoft vs. Hashcat Part 4: Case Studies
This is the final part of the series of articles comparing Elcomsoft Distributed Password Recovery with Hashcat. We’ve already compared the features, the price and performance of the two tools. In this study, we tried breaking passwords to several common formats, including Word document, an encrypted ZIP archive, and a VeraCrypt container. We summarized our experiences below.
👉 https://blog.elcomsoft.com/2020/12/elcomsoft-vs-hashcat-part-4-case-studies/
#gpu #passwords #passwordrecovery #veracrypt #zip #hashcat
This is the final part of the series of articles comparing Elcomsoft Distributed Password Recovery with Hashcat. We’ve already compared the features, the price and performance of the two tools. In this study, we tried breaking passwords to several common formats, including Word document, an encrypted ZIP archive, and a VeraCrypt container. We summarized our experiences below.
👉 https://blog.elcomsoft.com/2020/12/elcomsoft-vs-hashcat-part-4-case-studies/
#gpu #passwords #passwordrecovery #veracrypt #zip #hashcat
Elcomsoft breaks BestCrypt containers, supports NVIDIA Ampere cards
We updated Elcomsoft Forensic Disk Decryptor, Advanced Office Password Recovery and Elcomsoft Distributed Password Recovery with support for additional data formats and GPU accelerators. The updated tools break Jetico BestCrypt 9 containers, accelerate ZIP and RAR recovery on AMD and Intel GPUs, and add support for NVIDIA’s latest RTX 3000-series boards based on the Ampere architecture.
📝 Release Notes (PDF)
👉 https://www.elcomsoft.com/news/775.html
#gpu #passwords #passwordrecovery #zip #rar #archives #nvidia #myoffice #bestcrypt
We updated Elcomsoft Forensic Disk Decryptor, Advanced Office Password Recovery and Elcomsoft Distributed Password Recovery with support for additional data formats and GPU accelerators. The updated tools break Jetico BestCrypt 9 containers, accelerate ZIP and RAR recovery on AMD and Intel GPUs, and add support for NVIDIA’s latest RTX 3000-series boards based on the Ampere architecture.
📝 Release Notes (PDF)
👉 https://www.elcomsoft.com/news/775.html
#gpu #passwords #passwordrecovery #zip #rar #archives #nvidia #myoffice #bestcrypt
Breaking Passwords with NVIDIA RTX 3080 and 3090
Today we have an important date. Advanced Office Password Recovery turned 16. What started as an instant recovery tool for legacy versions of Microsoft Word had now become a GPU-accelerated toolkit for breaking the many Microsoft formats. Today we’re releasing a major update, giving Advanced Office Password Recovery and Distributed Password Recovery tools the ability to crunch passwords faster with the newest and latest NVIDIA 3000-series graphic boards. Powered by Ampere, the new generation of GPUs delivers unprecedented performance in modern video games. How do the new cards fare when it comes to accelerating the password recovery, and is an upgrade worth it for the forensic experts? Let’s find out.
👉 https://blog.elcomsoft.com/2020/12/breaking-passwords-with-nvidia-rtx-3080-and-3090/
#gpu #nvidia #rtx3090 #passwordcracking #bruteforce #videocards
Today we have an important date. Advanced Office Password Recovery turned 16. What started as an instant recovery tool for legacy versions of Microsoft Word had now become a GPU-accelerated toolkit for breaking the many Microsoft formats. Today we’re releasing a major update, giving Advanced Office Password Recovery and Distributed Password Recovery tools the ability to crunch passwords faster with the newest and latest NVIDIA 3000-series graphic boards. Powered by Ampere, the new generation of GPUs delivers unprecedented performance in modern video games. How do the new cards fare when it comes to accelerating the password recovery, and is an upgrade worth it for the forensic experts? Let’s find out.
👉 https://blog.elcomsoft.com/2020/12/breaking-passwords-with-nvidia-rtx-3080-and-3090/
#gpu #nvidia #rtx3090 #passwordcracking #bruteforce #videocards
GPU Acceleration On The Cheap: Using Affordable Video Cards to Break Passwords Faster
Most password protection methods rely on multiple rounds of hash iterations to slow down brute-force attacks. Even the fastest processors choke when trying to break a reasonably strong password. Video cards can be used to speed up the recovery with GPU acceleration, yet the GPU market is currently overheated, and most high-end video cards are severely overpriced. Today, we’ll test a bunch of low-end video cards and compare their price/performance ratio.
👉 https://blog.elcomsoft.com/2022/02/gpu-acceleration-on-the-cheap-using-affordable-video-cards-to-break-passwords-faster/
#amd #cuda #edpr #gpu #intel #passwordcracking #passwordrecovery
Most password protection methods rely on multiple rounds of hash iterations to slow down brute-force attacks. Even the fastest processors choke when trying to break a reasonably strong password. Video cards can be used to speed up the recovery with GPU acceleration, yet the GPU market is currently overheated, and most high-end video cards are severely overpriced. Today, we’ll test a bunch of low-end video cards and compare their price/performance ratio.
👉 https://blog.elcomsoft.com/2022/02/gpu-acceleration-on-the-cheap-using-affordable-video-cards-to-break-passwords-faster/
#amd #cuda #edpr #gpu #intel #passwordcracking #passwordrecovery
GPU Acceleration: Attacking Passwords with NVIDIA RTX Series Boards
Today’s data protection methods utilize many thousands (sometimes millions) hash iterations to strengthen password protection, slowing down the attacks to a crawl. Consumer-grade video cards are commonly used for GPU acceleration. How do these video cards compare, and what about the price-performance ratio? We tested five reasonably priced NVIDIA boards ranging from the lowly GTX 1650 to RTX 3060 Ti.
👉 https://blog.elcomsoft.com/2022/06/gpu-acceleration-attacking-passwords-with-nvidia-rtx-series/
#edpr #gpu #dfir #password #passwordrecovery #digitalforensics
Today’s data protection methods utilize many thousands (sometimes millions) hash iterations to strengthen password protection, slowing down the attacks to a crawl. Consumer-grade video cards are commonly used for GPU acceleration. How do these video cards compare, and what about the price-performance ratio? We tested five reasonably priced NVIDIA boards ranging from the lowly GTX 1650 to RTX 3060 Ti.
👉 https://blog.elcomsoft.com/2022/06/gpu-acceleration-attacking-passwords-with-nvidia-rtx-series/
#edpr #gpu #dfir #password #passwordrecovery #digitalforensics
Elcomsoft Distributed Password Recovery 80% faster with NVIDIA GeForce RTX 40 Series graphics cards
Elcomsoft Distributed Password Recovery 80% faster with NVIDIA GeForce RTX 40 Series graphics cards We updated Elcomsoft Distributed Password Recovery with support for NVIDIA GeForce RTX 40 Series graphics cards, the company’s latest and greatest GPU series. In addition, Elcomsoft Distributed Password Recovery can now break NetNTLM v1/v2 and IKE PSK MD5 hashes.
👉 https://www.elcomsoft.com/news/835.html
#EDPR #Nvidia #password #GPU #AdaLovelace #RTX
Elcomsoft Distributed Password Recovery 80% faster with NVIDIA GeForce RTX 40 Series graphics cards We updated Elcomsoft Distributed Password Recovery with support for NVIDIA GeForce RTX 40 Series graphics cards, the company’s latest and greatest GPU series. In addition, Elcomsoft Distributed Password Recovery can now break NetNTLM v1/v2 and IKE PSK MD5 hashes.
👉 https://www.elcomsoft.com/news/835.html
#EDPR #Nvidia #password #GPU #AdaLovelace #RTX
NVIDIA RTX 40 Series Graphics Cards: The Faster and More Efficient Password Recovery Accelerators
Every three years, NVIDIA releases a new architecture used in their GeForce series graphics cards. Powered by Ada Lovelace, the new generation of GPUs delivers 80% better performance in password recovery compared to Ampere. While the new generation of NVIDIA graphics is faster and more efficient than Ampere, it also received a price hike. Is the update worth it for the forensic experts? Let’s try to find out.
👉 https://blog.elcomsoft.com/2023/05/nvidia-rtx-40-series-graphics-cards-the-faster-and-more-efficient-password-recovery-accelerators/
#EDPR #GPU #Nvidia #password #AdaLovelace
Every three years, NVIDIA releases a new architecture used in their GeForce series graphics cards. Powered by Ada Lovelace, the new generation of GPUs delivers 80% better performance in password recovery compared to Ampere. While the new generation of NVIDIA graphics is faster and more efficient than Ampere, it also received a price hike. Is the update worth it for the forensic experts? Let’s try to find out.
👉 https://blog.elcomsoft.com/2023/05/nvidia-rtx-40-series-graphics-cards-the-faster-and-more-efficient-password-recovery-accelerators/
#EDPR #GPU #Nvidia #password #AdaLovelace
Elcomsoft Wireless Security Auditor adds support for Intel Arc graphics cards
We updated Elcomsoft Wireless Security Auditor with support for Intel Arc family of graphics cards, Intel’s cost-efficient entry to discrete GPU market.
👉 https://www.elcomsoft.com/news/836.html
#EWSA #password #IntelArc #gpu #dfir
We updated Elcomsoft Wireless Security Auditor with support for Intel Arc family of graphics cards, Intel’s cost-efficient entry to discrete GPU market.
👉 https://www.elcomsoft.com/news/836.html
#EWSA #password #IntelArc #gpu #dfir
Elcomsoft Lab: Benchmarking Password Recovery Speeds
In the realm of password recovery, benchmarking the speed of attacks holds significant importance. It is a customary practice to gauge the speed of attacks on various data formats using diverse hardware configurations. These tests yield results that are visually represented through graphs clearly demonstrating the performance of our products. However, these graphical representations merely scratch the surface of a much broader scope. Today, we delve deeper into the objectives and methodologies behind our password cracking speed tests.
👉 https://blog.elcomsoft.com/2023/06/elcomsoft-lab-benchmarking-password-recovery-speeds/
#benchmarks #EDPR #elcomsoftlab #GPU #acceleration #passwordrecovery
In the realm of password recovery, benchmarking the speed of attacks holds significant importance. It is a customary practice to gauge the speed of attacks on various data formats using diverse hardware configurations. These tests yield results that are visually represented through graphs clearly demonstrating the performance of our products. However, these graphical representations merely scratch the surface of a much broader scope. Today, we delve deeper into the objectives and methodologies behind our password cracking speed tests.
👉 https://blog.elcomsoft.com/2023/06/elcomsoft-lab-benchmarking-password-recovery-speeds/
#benchmarks #EDPR #elcomsoftlab #GPU #acceleration #passwordrecovery